Catalog Number
|
S0655
|
Title
|
Jesse Walker diary, 1838-1866
|
Scope & Content
|
Photocopies of diary discussing Walker's activities as a farmer in Rye, New Hampshire; a worker at the Portsmouth Naval Shipyard in the 1840s; and master of the "Sarah" in 1838. Includes accounts relating to goods he shipped to Boston, farmers, and crops. Topics include the Millerites predicting the end of the world, famine in Ireland, Great Comet of 1843, fires in Portsmouth in 1845, crossing the Piscataqua on ice in 1857, drownings, accidents at the navy yard, shipwrecks, storms and local weather. Also includes a list of the eight Walker children.
Transcribed by Joan Hammond.
|
Admin/Biographical History
|
Farmer, of Rye, N.H. Worker at Portsmouth Naval Shipyard. Master of the "Sarah."
|
Creator
|
Walker, Jesse Merrill, 1799-1867
|
Collection
|
Single Items / Small Collections
|
Object Name
|
Diary
|
Date
|
1838-1866
|
Extent of Description
|
1 item
|
Language of Material
|
English
|
People
|
Adams, Hanson Hoyt, 1794-1851
Allen, Samuel D., dfl. 1844
Babb, Peter, c1755-c1810
Badger, Samuel Augustus, 1794-1857
Berry, John, 1822-1847
Berry, Levi, 1792-1867
Bunker, George, 1828-1852
Burnham, Eliot G., 1796-1852
Carter, James, dfl. 1846
Chase, Romanty, 1837-1894
Clough, Nathan, 1813-1872
Conant, Frank, dfl. 1845
Corrier, Philip, d. 1846
Cox, Joseph Eastman, 1803-1894
Crane, William M.
Darlington, Benjamin Smith "Barton," 1813-1845
Dennett, John
Donenberg, Charles, dfl. 1846
Dow, James, 1785-1853
Downs, Abner, c1818-1844
Edger, Chales H., c1840-1846
Furness, Edward J. W., 1819-1852
Garland, John, dfl. 1838
Garland, Simon, dfl. 1838
Garland, Stephen, 1828-1852
Gerry, John, dfl. 1845
Goss, Nathan, 1811-1845
Harrison, William Henry, 1773-1841
Hawkins, Samuel V., c1806-1844
Haywood, J. M., dfl. 1850
Hazard, Samuel Fales, 1804-1867
Hickey, Charles, 1796-1841
Hoff, William "Henry", dfl. 1845
Jenkins, Nathaniel, 1814-1846
Junkins, Jairus, 1821-1874
Keen, Benjmain, c1800-1871
Kerswell, Samuel, dfl. 1846
Kimball, Charles, dfl. 1853
Kimball, Joseph, dfl. 1846
Knowles, John, dfl. 1838
Laighton, Charles Edward, 1799-1885
Laighton, William Fernald, 1815-1879
Lang, Aaron, 1813-1888
Lang, Daniel, 1797-1861
Lang, Thomas Marden, 1817-1896
Lang, William, 1774-1831
Lefavour, George, c1827-1848
Locke, J. L., dfl. 1846
Locke, James M., 1808-1887
Lutts, Cassandra Martin, 1920-1998
Lutts, Joseph H., 1825-1898
Manson, Parker, 1822-1903
Marden, Benjamin N., 1814-c1874
Marden, George E., 1816-1889
Marden, John, 1810-1884
Marden, Moses R., 1811-1884
Marden, William, 1810-1883
Miller, William, 1782-1849
Mills, Lorenzo D., c1823-1903
Moulton, David, 1810-1852
Mudge, Edward Ansley, 1815-1842
Newton, John C., 1818-1865
Newton, Joseph C., 1819-1880
North, John W., 1818-1903
Nutter, William H., 1822-1901
Odiorne, Truman Seavey, 1822-1881
Parsons, Amos Seavey, 1768-1850
Parsons, Charles G., 1808-1844
Parsons, John Wilkes, 1778-1849
Parsons, Thomas Jefferson, 1804-1890
Pearson, George Frederick, 1796-1867
Penhallow, John Pearce, 1809-1848
Philbrick, Daniel, 1805-1882
Philbrick, Joseph, dfl. 1838
Philbrick, Oliver, 1804-1861
Pickering, Charles William Whipple, 1815-1888
Polk, James Knox, 1795-1849
Pray, John, c1802-1850
Rand, Edward, dfl. 1845
Rand, Jedediah, 1808-1892
Rand, Joshua, dfl. 1838
Rand, Levi Moses, 1810-1874
Rand, Samuel H., dfl. 1839
Rand, Samuel N., dfl. 1843
Rand, Samuel, dfl. 1838
Remick, Elias, 1804-1881
Robinson, James Monroe, c1824-1844
Rowe, William, dfl. 1843
Salter, Captain
Simes, John D., 1808-1860
Simes, William, 1806-1880
Sloat, John D. (Capt.)
Smith, Alexander, d. 1847
Stimson, Charles W., 1794-1868
Stimson, David S., 1823-1842
Stokell, Robert, 1788-1850
Storer, George Washington, 1789-1864
Storer, Lincoln, 1828-1849
Story, William, dfl. 1846
Taylor, Zachary, 1784-1850
Treadwell, William Hearle, 1824-1896
Tucker, Henry, dfl. 1843
Tuckerman, Samuel (Capt.), 1792-1850
Turner, Daniel, d. 1850
Turner, Peter (Lt.), dfl. 1848
Varrell, John, c1820-1881
Varrell, Jonathan W., 1814-1873
Wade, Richard Deane Arden (Col.), 1796-1850
Waldron, William, dfl. 1846
Walker family
Walker, Albert M., 1827-1907
Walker, Benjamin Franklin, 1825-1892
Walker, Charles Alonzo, 1837-1909
Walker, Jesse Merrill, 1799-1867
Walker, Jonathan Towle, 1804-1884
Walker, Levi Towle, 1809-1874
Walker, Nathaniel Marden, 1819-1854
Walker, Samuel J., 1834-1901
Walker, Samuel, 1776-1862
Walker, Stephen, 1810-1861
Walker, William J., 1832-1904
Whidden, Samuel, dfl. 1841
Williams, Joanna, dfl. 1846
Woodbury, Levi, 1789-1851
Woodman, Emery, 1825-1906
Woodman, J., dfl. 1844
Woodman, William, 1820-1885
Wyman, Thomas W., 1793-1854
Yeaton, William W., 1809-1850
Young, James, c1809-1844
|
Search Terms
|
Albert Gallatin (Ship)
Alice Tarlton (Bark)
America (Ship; Portsmouth, 1846)
Angelia (Schooner)
Ann Parry (Bark; Portsmouth, 1825)
Armida (Schooner)
Badger shipyard
Borodino (Brig; Rockport, 1837)
Brunette (Ship; Thomaston)
Catherine (Ship)
Charles (Ship; Portsmouth, 1838)
Clara (Ship; Kittery, 1842)
Columbus (Ship; 1847)
Congress (Frigate; Portsmouth, 1841)
Crusader (Schooner)
Dale (U.S.S.)
Decatur (U.S.S.)
Empire (Ship; Portsmouth, 1844)
Empire State (Ship)
Epaminondas (Ship; Portsmouth, 1844)
Faneuil Hall (Ship)
Fernald & Pettigrew Shipyard
Finland (Ship; Portsmouth, 1844)
Fortitude (Ship; Kittery, 1835)
Franconia (Ship)
Franklin (U.S.S.)
Gorge Parker (Brig)
Huntress (Steamboat)
Isaac Newton (Ship)
Isles of Shoals
Judah Touro (Ship; Portsmouth, 1845)
Kittery (Me.)
Lexington (Steamboat)
Loira (Schooner)
Lowel (Ship)
Martha (Bark; Kittery, 1845)
Mary B. Oliver (Bark; Kittery, 1847)
Mary Pleasants (Ship; Kittery, 1845)
Matilda (Brig: Kittery, 1846)
Milo (Schooner; Gloucester)
Milo (Ship; Kittery, 1834)
Odd Fellows
Ontario (Schooner)
Pearl (Schooner)
Pest Island
Pocahontas (Brig; Newburyport)
Portsmouth (N.H.)
Portsmouth (U.S.S.) sailing ship
Portsmouth Harbor Lighthouse
Portsmouth Naval Shipyard
Portsmouth Naval Shipyard Museum and Visitors Center
R. D. Sheppard (Ship; Kittery, 1846)
Rye (N.H.)
Santee (U.S.S.)
Sarah (Ship; Rye, 1837)
Saranac (side-wheel steamer)
Saratoga (U.S.S.)
Thomas Wright (Ship; Portsmouth, 1845)
Tim Pickering (Brig; Dover, 1841)
William Fales (Bark)
Yacht (Steamboat)
|
Subjects
|
Accidents
Accounts
Agriculture
Barks
Boston (Mass.)
Brigs
Cost & standard of living
Costs
Crops
Deaths
Diaries and journals
Elections
End of the world
Farmers
Farming
Fast-day
Fires
Harvesting
History - Mexican War, 1846-1848
Ice industry
Kittery (Me.)
Live Oak
Millerite movement
Naval yards & naval stations
New Hampshire
Portsmouth (N.H.)
Portsmouth Naval Shipyard (U.S)
Rye (N.H.)
Salaries, pensions, etc.
Schooners
Ship captains
Shipbuilding industry
Shipping
Ships
Shipwrecks
Smallpox
Steamboats
Storms
Supplies
Weather
|
Multimedia Files
|
Click here to view the transcription of the diary of Jesse M. Walker.
|
